When we decided to join Y Combinator, we were already profitable and saw it as an opportunity to scale our team and improve our fundraising efforts.

When we went public, we raised $25 billion, which is not just money; it's the trust from people who want us to do better jobs and help more people.

Despite only raising $118,000 throughout our company's life, we achieved returns of over 30,000% upon acquisition, highlighting the potential of lean startups.

We raised $80,000 from friends and family to support Instapaper after it spun out, with the goal of making it a long-term sustainable business.

When we went public in 2021, we decided to save our funds instead of spending them immediately, anticipating tougher days ahead in the biotech landscape.

Raising a large funding round in 2021 allowed us to rapidly expand our engineering team and replatform our data backend, enabling us to shift towards becoming an analytics business.

Once we entered the market, we decided to raise more funds through a real outside round, seeking strategic partners to invest in our desktop product. We decided to keep our valuation stable during the funding round, despite offers from venture capitalists to increase it, because we wanted to go public without risking a down round.

When I left the company, we grew from zero revenues to about $150 million in recurring revenue, leading to a sale to Microsoft for around $800 million.

We recently raised $17 million from Lightseed and Nvidia, and our revenue is doubling every quarter as we build the next generation of search.